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Vinson & Elkins LLP

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Vinson & Elkins LLP

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For more than 35 years, lawyers in Vinson & Elkins’ Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) practice have been helping clients achieve their business objectives. We counsel clients on corporate, securities, tax, regulatory, financial, organizational, and other matters, including REIT formation transactions and capital markets transactions, restructurings and going-private transactions, and UpREIT and DownREIT structures. Additionally, V&E also has one of the largest teams of dedicated REIT practitioners in the industry, and we are consistently engaged in numerous transformational transactions for our clients.

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REITs - USA - Nationwide

Band 3

What the Team is Known For

Vinson & Elkins provides guidance to a broad client base of sponsors, issuers and underwriters, as well as other critical real estate players, on a comprehensive array of REIT processes such as formation, transactions, regulations, tax and other concerns. It demonstrates a particular aptitude for the discipline of REIT capital markets offerings, including both private and public debt and equity offerings such as Rule 144A and IPOs, as well as REIT M&A.

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Work Highlights

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  • Vinson & Elkins advised Wells Fargo Securities, the underwriters to CubeSmart, in a $450 million public offering of investment-grade senior notes.

Strengths

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  • The team at Vinson & Elkins have an excellent understanding of the landscape more broadly. They are reliable and responsive, with sophisticated and collaborative work.

    REITs respondentUSA

  • Vinson & Elkins work on very complex deals. They are very plugged in and responsive.

    REITs respondentUSA

  • Vinson & Elkins understand our business as well as anyone and frequently try to find ways to drive value with industry introductions. They have a wide array of expertise, and lots of experience and pragmatism.

    REITs respondentUSA

Notable Practitioners

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  • Daniel M LeBey
    Daniel M LeBey

    Daniel M LeBey

    Daniel LeBey is routinely called upon by both sponsors and REITs for his ability to handle equity and debt offerings, as well as M&A.

    • Daniel is knowledgeable, commercial, pragmatic and can be a bulldog when needed. He's as good as they get.

      REITs respondentUSA
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  • Paige Anderson
    Paige Anderson

    Paige Anderson

    Paige Anderson has a strong presence in the tax space and is frequently called upon to handle the structural issues encountered when REITs are engaged in major transactions.

    • Paige gets to the nitty gritty and understands the issues, providing precise business advice that makes sense.

      REITs respondentUSA

    • Paige is an incredible resource, available at any time, super responsive and knowledgeable on REIT tax issues.

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  • Christopher C Green
    Christopher C Green

    Christopher C Green

    Christopher Green is particularly adept at handling securities offerings on behalf of underwriters and mortgage REITs.

    • Chris is an outstanding attorney.

      REITs respondentUSA

    • Chris is a very good REITs lawyer – very well respected.

      REITs respondentUSA

    • Chris is a reasonable, smart and likeable lawyer.

      REITs respondentUSA

    • Chris is excellent. He understands our business very well and is a trusted adviser.

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  • S Gregory Cope
    S Gregory Cope

    S Gregory Cope

    Gregory Cope acts as counsel to both underwriters and major REITs on M&A and equity offerings.

    • Greg is always very commercial, and understands our business and transactions very well. He is excellent on precise matters of law and regulation.

      REITs respondentUSA

    • Greg is very easy to deal with, and he understands the REIT world very well. He has strong technical proficiencies and takes commercial approaches to negotiation.

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  • Zach Swartz
    Zach Swartz

    Zach Swartz

    Zach Swartz focuses his practice on representing property trusts, REITs and financial institutions in REIT security offerings and M&A transactions.

    • Zach is very skilled at client management. He's smart, experienced and has that client development aspect.

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